Improvement in animal-traps



anca eine JAMES D. PELL, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 112,844, dated March 21, 1871.

' IMPROVEMENiI IN ANIMAL-TRAPS.

The Schedule referredto lnthese Lett-ers Patent and making paxt of the lame.

To all whom it mcg/'concern: l

Be it known that I, JAMES D. PELL, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Animal-Trap; and l do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanyingfdrawing forming part of thisl specification, in which- Figure l'is a bottoni view of a trap to which my improvements have been attached.

Figure 2is adetail sectionalyiew of the same taken through the line y fy, fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondingparts.

'My invention has for its object to improve the construction of the ordinary wooden animal-traps -so as to make them more convenient in -use and morel represented in the drawing as being round, and with" iive holes, a1,- but the shape and the number of holes are entirely immaterial.

In the center of the lunder sideot' the trap is formed a hole or recess, a2, to receive the bait, and which communicates with the ordinary holes al ofthe-tp by channels a3.

B is the wire loop by which the 4animal is caught, 'the ends ofthe arms of which are connected with the spring-loop G in the ordinary manner.

D is the trigger', .which is maclein the form ot a wire loop, and passes down through a hole, a", in the Wooden part A, so as to hang in the rear part -ot .the holes al, just opposite the mouth of the channels c,

so that the animal cannot reach the bait in the holel a2' without touching the said trigger D and springing the trap.

At the top of the wooden part A the trigger-loop D is bent nearly at right angles, and extends along the top of the said part A to a point about in line with the points at which the arms of the loop B pass through -the part A into the holes al, Where it is pivpressed downward, thus setting the trap.

With this construction one bait serves for all the lioles of .the trap, however many of said holes there may be, and the said bait is so placed that the animals, in attempting to reach it, will unavoidably touch the triggerloop D and spring the trap, so that the bait cannot be eaten by the animals, and will not` require to be renewed except at long intervals.

This construction valso enables the trap to 4be set without touching the parts of the trap with which the animals have'been in contact.v

Having thus fully described my invention, I claiml as new, and desire to secure .by Letters Patent--V 1. The automatic self-catching trigger DD d pivoted on the top of the tra-p, and bent into the shape described, when combined with loop Band spring O,

for the purpose specified.

' 2. The central chamber c2, to receive-a single bait, combined, as described, with a series of open chambers, a, surrounding it', and each provided with a loop, B, and trigger D, operating, as specified, to catch the invader before he reaches the bait.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 12th day of November, 1870. v v

' JAMES D. PELL.

Witnesses:

J AMES T. GRAHAM, T. B. MOSHER. 

